Also I noticed that the anti-red-eye technology not only removed the fake daytime devil-like redeye, but it turned the little girls grimace in the 'before' shot into a big wide smile in the 'after' shot.
Why is this guy marked troll? He is spot on. Sometimes I am waiting at a queue of traffic at a light and don't see any car movement up front for almost 5 secs.. on a 10 sec light. This horrendously slows things down.
It's these inattentive, plodding along without a care in the world drivers that should be classed as rule breakers, even though they are not breaking official rules.
I guess you haven't bought an HD camcorder lately. That stuff needs to be backed up man - I won't be able to re-film his first steps again when I lose all my home video.
Well, so long as you are not waiting for hundreds of megs to clear from the buffers, but if you do a large copy to the external device, you don't know if it has finished buffering or not unless you safely unmount.
I guess it depends how big the disk buffers are...
Little things, like safely unmounting USB drives (he uses them a lot) work *BETTER* and with a much more intuitive interface in Gnome than they ever did in windows.
I have to call this one, as I got bitten by it this morning... (wife complaint)
How is right clicking the icon and choosing "unmount" any better than right clicking the "safely remove" icon?
On both Linux and Windows, you have to pro-actively perform an action to remove a stick. This must be learned on both os's, BUT it's all in the wording. "Unmount" doesn't mean a whole lot to a non-techie, "Safely remove" makes much more sense.
This is not a gripe about the effectiveness of the removal functions, by the way, just a comment on the intuitiveness of the wording.
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fuck it, go all the way. idspispopd
I'm wondering if that HTML5 demo http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/2348219/HTML-5-Canvas-Experiment-Hints-At-Things-To-Come?art_pos=8 had anything to do with it. If the normal /. crowd went to the demo, which then in turn loads 100 'tweets' from twitter, is that not equivalent to twitter receiving a 100x slash-dotting?
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Also I noticed that the anti-red-eye technology not only removed the fake daytime devil-like redeye, but it turned the little girls grimace in the 'before' shot into a big wide smile in the 'after' shot.
The technology of today truly astounds me.
Tom...
Love the reference. I think I had her singing it in my head as I read it just now.
Just checked, I get NXDOMAIN so there is no hijacking going on :)
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Or the other jerk in the same situation, that takes 90% of the 2-lane section to overtake said slow driver.
Why is this guy marked troll? He is spot on. Sometimes I am waiting at a queue of traffic at a light and don't see any car movement up front for almost 5 secs.. on a 10 sec light. This horrendously slows things down.
It's these inattentive, plodding along without a care in the world drivers that should be classed as rule breakers, even though they are not breaking official rules.
oops :)
I mean './a', sorry
Naah, bring your own plane.
What if you want to paste over a selection? That's one thing that has always bugged me about that copy/paste interface.
I use this all the time. Although I find it hard to adhere to the 3 seconds, I constantly 'test' myself and sigh cos, oh well, i'm too close.
Imagine my delight when, upon researching the old advert, it turns out that it is in fact a TWO second rule!
Oh joy, I just bought myself an extra second of tailgatey goodness!
THANK YOU!
Ahhh excellent sig. First time I have seen that 'in the wild'
Tom...
Time to buy more shoes I think.
If they can call is something like "Apple Core" then they will be onto a sure winner.
Especially if they can incorporate lots of "Programming Interface Pathways" or some such jargon.
Tom...
I guess you haven't bought an HD camcorder lately. That stuff needs to be backed up man - I won't be able to re-film his first steps again when I lose all my home video.
You want to 'mildly warm' them to death?
Thank you, that's exactly what I was trying to say.
Maybe I should be more verbose.
And now compare hd prices from then and now too :)
They word the pricing to make it sound attractive, only 10c/GB, but that makes this 500GB disk a hideously expensive $50! That's too much.
By the time this tech comes out, that will be orders of magnitude more than HD prices. Maybe even flash storage will be cheaper by then.
I've heard of a few people doing this now. Where can I buy one of these time-shifted phones?
Block rotation in the 21st century was CONSIDERABLY more widespread after...
Funny, my Dell can go in and out of standby/hybernate in moments.
Yes hibernate is a little slower, but still quick.
And that is Ubuntu 8.10.
So don't rule out linux users' ability to suspend/standby/hibernate.
Tom...
Well, so long as you are not waiting for hundreds of megs to clear from the buffers, but if you do a large copy to the external device, you don't know if it has finished buffering or not unless you safely unmount.
I guess it depends how big the disk buffers are...
Little things, like safely unmounting USB drives (he uses them a lot) work *BETTER* and with a much more intuitive interface in Gnome than they ever did in windows.
I have to call this one, as I got bitten by it this morning... (wife complaint)
How is right clicking the icon and choosing "unmount" any better than right clicking the "safely remove" icon?
On both Linux and Windows, you have to pro-actively perform an action to remove a stick. This must be learned on both os's, BUT it's all in the wording. "Unmount" doesn't mean a whole lot to a non-techie, "Safely remove" makes much more sense.
This is not a gripe about the effectiveness of the removal functions, by the way, just a comment on the intuitiveness of the wording.
Tom...